"Wage gap" not closing, say women's advocates

Although the wage gap has narrowed since the days when full-time working women made 58 cents on average to the dollar earned by men, women’s wages have remained stuck at 77 cents to the dollar since 2001, according to government statistics. “At the rate the pay gap is closing, it will still be decades before women achieve equal pay,” said Linda Meric of Westminster, executive director of 9to5, National Association of Working Women, who founded the Colorado chapter in 1996. “That is unacceptable.” Critics say there’s no such thing, and that any disparity comes from the career choices women make. What do you think? (Read the story.)